Reply #39: Because as a society we have to wait until things are REALLY bad... [View All]

[Obamarama]

Before we realize "Um, yeah...maybe there IS a problem."

It's what we Americans do (or at least the other 59 million of us who vote). I mean, come on...how long did it take for it to sink in that Big Macs, Whoppers and fries every other day are going to make you obese, cause your arteries to clog, and generally ruin your health.

It's a little too late when you show up, code blue, in the ER to realize that, afterall, maybe you should have been eating your fruits and vegetables all these years. But that's the scenario millions upon millions of our fellow Americans see play out in their lives...it's the price of ignoring the facts, signs and symptoms due to bad judgement until it's too damned late to do much about it except hope.

Well, our fellow Americans who voted for the biggest asshole to ever inhabit the West Wing are finally having their heart attacks over the fact that their man is fiddling while American soldiers and innocent Iraqis suffer death and injury, day in and day out, with no end in sight; while Osama bin Laden runs free; while the economy slips and slides its way to nowhere; while more than 40 million people can't afford basic healthcare while drug companies rack up phenomenal profits....the list goes on and on. They are now in "code blue", but if only they hadn't ignored all the symptoms prior to November we'd at least be on the way to resolving our various messes. But NO....here we are, stuck with the Boy King for three more years with not much choice other than for our country to spend the rest of the term in intensive care, clinging ever so precariously to democracy, the life of our country.

Unfortunately, we all get to suffer the consequences of the horrible pathology that is the Bush Administration. I just hope the ones who voted for the evil cabal suffer just a little more than the rest of us as we have the satisfaction of saying to them: Would you like a nice steaming order of freedom fries with that?